skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the idea that technology will evolve to allow long distances to be driven without having to stop and charge for hours during the trip?
Why the change of heart? I can't find an official statement from Discord.
> People do more business with less haggling with friends than with strangers.

This is how humans work. This cannot change with UBI.
Vanguard hasn’t. Fidelity hasn’t. TD Ameritrade hasn’t (other than not allowing margin for shorts). I disn’t check Schwab but I don’t think they blocked purchases either.
Find who is teaching it and it’s the book they wrote on the topic ;) kidding
I honestly feel bad for all the employees, especially the early ones with equity that were looking forward to cashing out after the IPO - now they have to deal with immensely negative PR and federal investigations.
I won't downvote you, but American history of free speech has some really dark spots. Read up on Comstock Laws or Sedition Act of 1918 and their victims.

Just like everywhere else, words on paper do not defend themselves, even if that paper is the Constitution. Authoritarian people will try to sneak in limitations into laws, free minded people will have to defend the principle.

This is just a new iteration of a very old war.
What is amazing is the story behind the product, http://www.tamaleking.com/page5.html, and how it really is a case of someone spotting a problem, learning multiple new specialized skills to create a solution, patenting that solution, and then making a living off of the invention.

People criticize the patent system in regards to software, but it has been reliably driving progress in meat space for a long time!
Then they should have blocked all trading, not just buying. The benevolent story just doesn't hold up.
Robinhood is one of many brokers. If you sell GME through RH, the buyer can come from anywhere.
Why does Robinhood still have a 4.8 rating on the iOS Appstore?
Asking because they have a 1 star rating on Google Play store.
Bowing to the whims of established trading firms to protect said firms being squeezed by a crazy army of day traders is a great way to ruin the rep your “Robinhood” trading app stands for. Score one for the little guy.

I’m hoping RobinHood gets sued out of existence and many of these hedge funds burn. The industry’s response to this is stupid and classist: “we can’t have randos making money...” as irrational as the system is it is working as is.
People typically get a meal on an international flight, but not if they fly RyanAir.

If you run a super discount brokerage platform, you don’t have the luxury of reaching out to all your customers to find out what course of action they want to take.

I’m not sure if RH violated their own terms here, if they did then sure, they deserve a lawsuit. I suspect they didn’t, and this is just a case of people being in over their head.
Robinhood phrased their message as if it was for user's own good. Moralizing everything beyond protocol and rules and law has serious consequences. It does nothing but driving people cynical. Didn't the elites learn the stories of USSR political jokes, the stories of how East Germans (and ancient Chinese people) talked to each other via eye contacts only? It's not hard to guess what will happen when enough number of people stop trusting the system. For that matter, I'm so glad that AOC and Td Cruz can agree with each other to probe Robinhood's practice.
Apex is the clearing firm for Tastyworks and Webull too. I got an email from Tastyworks about restrictions (which just got lifted).
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I wouldn’t give that rumour any serious thought considering there’s literally nothing backing it up and it mostly just feeds what people already want to believe.

People are pointing out in the comments that some of the details don’t line up, like him being based in the wrong city and him overhearing conversations while WFH.
All the paid brokerages have done the same. This is really not about trading fees.
There's valid concerns about Google Cloud support (or lack thereof), Google account shutdowns without notice/recourse and Google price increases (ie: maps, kubernetes). Google shutting down cloud given its massive revenue and likely many long term contracts with horrible penalty clauses isn't I feel a valid concern.
What about the people that are trying to double down to protect their long position? What about the money they will lose? Either the market is efficient or it isn't.
Interestingly, I bank with HSBC and I could buy and sell GME and AMC the whole time outside of when it was halted. I called them to ask why and they said they clear their own trades. Not sure how exactly that is possible though (if anyone can explain...)
The CEO of the Nasdaq suggested it yesterday: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/nasdaq-ceo-suggest...
Dan Luu just wrote a blog post about this.

He says BL is fundamentally wrong in his analysis, and that the overwhelming majority of time spent programming in 1987 turns out to be what BL calls "accident", and has been radically reduced by progress since.

There is still no "silver bullet", but there are many, many bullets with cumulative effect, so that many programming tasks that would have taken prohibitively long in 1987 can now be done on a whim.

https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/

Probably the biggest bullet is greater accessibility and power of libraries, coupled with languages better able to express and use them. When libraries are more useful, there is more motivation to make and publish them, and so there are more available to use.
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"encraption" : chuckle
That's insane, tried to buy GME on robinhood and my trade just got cancelled...
I agree with you. In general I think poorly for RH in several major aspects, but I'm not sure if most of the complaints here understand how a margin account works, nor how a broker - order house relationship creates a liquid market. There's definitely shennigans going on here but it's not obvious they are illegal. Hate the game not the player.
shirt sellers borrow stock, then sell it. when the shirt is up, they are required to buy new stock and return the borrowed shares.

if the stock price is higher when they borrow and sell, and lower when they buy and return, they make a profit equal to the difference.
they lose money if the stock price goes up. all these people buying GME and driving the price up will hold GME stock, and the shirt sellers will be forced to purchase back the stock at premium prices. even if the stock price goes down slightly, the people buying up all the GME will still profit.

but more importantly a lot of people's goal is to f over a major firm that constantly over leverages itself.
Reuters are claiming short sellers have lost 70billion usd, when they are the sums involved, anything is possible.

There was someone claiming to be a robin hood employee, that the White House got involved. Obviously I would take this with an extreme pinch of salt but with those numbers there is every motivation from the powers that be
Somewhat off topic but I was in Spain before Christmas, and there the Christmas Lottery is a big deal: it has a huge jackpot but costs 20€ for a ticket. The drawing of the numbers is a massive televised affair, with children singing out the numbers, I kid you not. Lots of interviews with winners big and small.

There were lines outside the ticket shops (semi social distanced and with masks). Street vendors of tickets were walking around asking people “don’t you want 200 million Euros?” Or whatever the number was, I didn’t win so I forget.

Point being, with the Christmas lottery all but personally endorsed by the Pope and the King, and with millions of poor and poorly educated people watching this spectacle, I’d be shocked if some people didn’t cause themselves real trouble as a result. Just one more ticket...

(My friends there treat it mostly as a joke but still do buy one ticket each, every year, on principle.)
> From what I understand Melvin Capital, one of the biggest short-sellers that got in trouble, is owned by Citadel

No, Citadel does not own Melvin Capital. Melvin Capital received an investment from Citadel (the hedge fund, not the market maker) and Point72 this week.

> Robinhood seems to be manipulating the market to make it easier for Melvin Capital to cut their substantial losses.

Melvin already cut its losses this week, as was widely reported. There is no evidence for the counter claims that they're lying, which themselves originate on reddit. In particular: all the widely cited short interest figures on reddit which purport to show this are out of date (usually by weeks), and even if they were true, they would not be proof the short positions weren't closed.
Why block buying and not selling?

Why did they all come to the same conclusion at the same time?
I actually thought about that when I typed my reply, but decided the meaning of my question would still be clear the way it was phrased. Despite that, my question is more or less irrelevant since I misunderstood the author.
Google cloud is trash
The firehose of contextless screenshots, unsubstantiated hearsay, and general freakout is out in full force today. The only thing any of it makes me believe is that it's time to get off the internet for a while.
Completely agreed. Margin accounts are a strange, convoluted construct, and it was wrong for Robinhood to try and present them as easy or normal.
Revenue is in the same ballpark as BannerBear with similar growth. However, most of my licenses are one-time and I just recently introduced a subscription. Like BannerBear, my competition in the desktop space is very expensive for customers.
Sounds like it. But at 35cents / month, that doesn’t sound like a bad outcome.
You WILL get a camel herder if you restrict though. Like they restricted Bernie.
> But the Fedora community has publicly stated that "to consider the SSPL to be 'Free' or 'Open Source' causes a shadow to be cast across all other licenses in the FOSS ecosystem."

My takeaway from all this isn't that "enterprise open source" is no longer a viable business model. It's that if you want to start an enterprise open source company, start with SSPL.

It works great as an open source license. People and businesses can use, modify, and redistribute the product for free. The only thing they can't do is package the product and sell/host it as a service.

This is extremely reasonable. AWS shouldn't be able to take the technology that your team built, without asking/paying/contributing, and quickly turn it into a $100m+ business.

Sure "true" open source champions will balk at the license. But at the end of the day, the technology only flourishes because of the business built around it (eg. Elastic around Elasticsearch). SSPL goes a long way to protect your business, and therefore the underlying technology, from big tech.

What would Elasticsearch be without Elastic? What would MongoDB be without MongoDB Inc?
So just partially owns, then.
I'd love for this to make a difference for simple video calls with relatives -- in my imagination, I set it up, and we find out we've been in the audio equivalent of the uncanny valley this whole time. But I'm afraid in reality, the default audio codecs used in WebRTC are probably good enough to make poor microphones and pure connection latency the bigger issue. Am I wrong?

Obviously, even if I'm right, this has a target audience -- musicians, interviewers and other people who talk for a living -- for which it might be fantastic.
Good free markets should be free. No government bailouts no problem.
Not to hijack or anything, but I had a similar idea[0]. I wonder how many other projects like these are out there?

[0] https://isthisastonk.com
I work with teams that have rules like that.

The other thing to consider is that many of us routinely work with people across much of the world on a day-to-day basis. Even if everyone were in office--some are, some aren't--almost every meeting I'd be in would have people from 2 or 3 different offices. One office I work with a lot is in the same time zone. The other is 6 time zones away but that still works pretty well because we have meetings early in the workday our time, which for them is mid-afternoon.
too bad you can't get that ticker symbol
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Amazon has killed many products/services over the years...
I'm a Westerner, so I know what you're saying. That said, on matters such as these, I think we've entered an era where the government of China does not care about the Western viewpoint. They see a potential threat to their economy, and they deal with it their own way. That's not good or bad, it's the reality of the more multi-polar era we're entering.

How do we operate in this era? That's up to really smart people in the bowels of Western capitols. But in my own opinion, rule of law or no, I'm not sure going to bat for the likes of Ant is a hill we want to send soldiers to die on as they say. Ant itself was intended to flout the rule of International Law. How do we argue on its behalf in the name of "rule of law"? That squanders what little credibility we do have in China.
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Excellent post. I should add that text formating is almost as important as what you want to say.

11 short sentences addressing 4 points packed in a single paragraph is really painfull to read.

Use paragraphs, new lines and bullet points as much as you can.

Let the reader breath.
> My hope is that this will drive a reformist movement around digital rights (speech, commerce, etc.) As well as a movement from platforms to protocols.

I don’t have much hope for this, mainly because being the owner of a platform is much more profitable than being one of many protocol end points. Look at git. It is hard to think of a more open protocol, and yet GitHub absolutely dominates and it is a big deal if they decide to cut off your repo.

A better alternative is for government to fund and operate critical infrastructure or at least heavily regulate it.

I don’t have to worry that I will get deplatformed from mail, because the USPS is there and they have strict legal requirements prohibiting them from deplatforming people. I don’t have to worry that I won’t be deplatformed from roads, because most roads are operated by the government, which is under strict legal precedents that they can’t deplatform me. It is similar with utilities such as electricity, water, gas which are privately operated but heavily regulated.

Some of the internet infrastructure is both becoming more vital as has economies of scale such that there is an inherent drive for consolidation. As such, I think it is becoming time that such things be regulated like utilities.
Genuinely curios, what type of assets can only be liquidated 33 cents on the dollar?

And what is the likelyhood Melvin had such a significant proportion of their portfolio in such assets?
> 1) Because there was just a single "capitol incident", and several BLM riots.

No, there wasn't just a single incident. Just to give some examples off the top of my head: large groups of III%ers participated in both the Capitol Attack and Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the BLM counter-protests were arguably part of the same phenomenon (and one of them shot three people in Kenosha).

> 2) So you seriously believe all violence at BLM riots was solely because of false flag white supremacists? Really?

That's a sloppy reading of what I said. I merely pointed out a fact that makes attribution of violence that occurred at the protests difficult.

> 3) Bullshit. Riots are not "democratic process" either - it's people rejecting the established laws (like property rights) and proceeding to do their own thing. I mean they installed an "autonomous zone", how is that not an attack on democracy?

It's pretty obvious that it wasn't an "attack on democracy" because they made reform demands to elected officials and were cooperating with the government:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zon...

> The protest zone has increasingly functioned with the tacit blessing of the city. Harold Scoggins, the fire chief, was there on Wednesday, chatting with protesters, helping set up a call with the Police Department and making sure the area had portable toilets and sanitation services....

> The demonstrators have also been trying to figure it out, with various factions voicing different priorities. A list of three demands was posted prominently on a wall: one, defund the Police Department; two, fund community health; and three, drop all criminal charges against protesters.

In comparison, the capitol attackers setup a gallows and were chanting things like "Hang Mike Pence," because he wouldn't unconstitutionally override the election (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hang-mike-pence-chant-capi..., https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/15/mike-pence-cl...). The sloppy false equivalences to deflect away from that are getting old.
They all used the same logic to make this decision, that's how. They all saw suspicious patterns of trading by retail customers and made the typically overly cautious decision to restrict trading until they receive guidance from the powers that be.
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Very few people actually got punished, but a lot changed since 2008. Executives were forced to step down. Several major players went bankrupt and many more lost 95%+ of their valuations. Anecdotally, I hear that companies are taking compliance much more seriously. HN would call the surveillance at banks today Orwellian if they were more knowledgable about it.
Robinhood uses Apex behind the scenes too. Apex is probably having trouble clearing these trades (given how one sided it is) and just decided to not trade them, resulting in the butterfly effect of multiple brokerages not trading these stock.
For the county I've gone through the process with, the county periodically adds new links to the calvax website on their home page. Each link is a different day/location.

When you follow the link, you have to fill out your name, address, insurance, employment status, email, phone #, etc. Then you have to answer around 20 medical questions (some of the ones I remember: pregnant? Breastfeeding? Cancer? Had covid before? Allergies? Is this your 1st or 2nd dose? If 2nd, which vaccine did you have before?)

Then there's a confirmation page where you're supposed to verify the info you typed in (but if you take the time to actually verify you reduce the odds of getting an appointment)

Then there's a page where you scribble your signature with a mouse

If you gotten that far without getting booted out by the Cloud flare rate limiting or getting a Heroku error, you're finally allowed to see if the location has available appointments, and see if they are using the flavor of vaccine that you need.
Vanguard has not blocked anything. Just wanted to throw that out there as I really like them as a company.
If they weren't leveraged, this is basically theft.
In the sense that any Limited Partner partially owns an investment vehicle because they have a stake in it, yes.
I think I addressed that in my last paragraph.
I meant that thinking in terms of 'LGBT' being a distinct category in your conception of the world is a worldview foreign to a lot of *chan people.

They don't slice up the world the same way you do; whoever made up that word put gays, lesbians, and transsexuals together for political reasons, and left-wing political activists your median chan-users are not- why use the language of someone else, someone who despises you and wants to crush you?

From their point of view, the mental theatre that contains actors named 'LGBT' and 'Diversity, Inclusion and Equity' as front-and-centre characters is a cold, dead place-

whereas their native memescape, filled with Colourful Words, traps, arguments, the cacophany of 'hateful memes', is alive and vibrant by comparison, if tinged by a deep despair at the leaching of vitality from the world.

It's why the NPC meme caught on.

Traps are anime, and so are idealised abstractions as much as anime girls are. They're also tinged by imported japanese culture, I'd assume.
Obviously the argument applies. Retail are aiming to punish them by no longer using them. It's freedom.
I don’t know how well validated this is, I’ve only seen the same screenshot multiple times, no others. While if there is a margin call RH would have the right to sell down positions to meet the call, in this case it’s not clear if that’s the reason. It would also be problematic because they and many other brokers first manipulated the market by preventing purchases or the stock, causing it to tank, leading to them selling at a price below what it otherwise would have been.
I don't see a correlation between the two incidents.
And yet, as soon as WeBull allowed it again, it went up quite a bit. So we have proof positive that RH cost these people very real money.

What I’m saying is that you are provably wrong.
> but it is still achievable

I would say it is undecidable, to be honest. For example

if(undecidable_function())
return lots_of_code();
else
return 0;

Can you remove lots_of_code() or not?
>Are they entitled to prevent people from buying the shares you hold?

So if I am long on a stock that gets delisted from an exchange, can I sue that exchange because they are making it more difficult for people to buy that stock?
WallStreetBets is by far not the only stock market subreddit
> China has being doing great, following a path that the West disapprove.

China is doing a typical catch up development due to low base/high labour supply. USSR did this during Stalin's ruling, many others did so as well.

There is nothing unique or spectacular here. China is still a dirt poor country with GDP per capita at 15% of that of the US.

When they will become closer to developed nations' economic level, they'll need more sophisticated institutions, rule of law, or they would face a middle income trap.

For now they can grow by simply utilizing their large factors of production, even dictatorship can do this.
Oh come on, the text of the Reality Vibes piece is literally a cut-and-paste from Business Insider with minor edits.

At least BI wrote their own text, it might contain the same information but the structure and text of the article is original.
was it actually different between D6 and D7 ?
Nope, I doubt it. It's much easier to sell shovels and still benefit whether the price goes up or down.
I wrote the classic-Mac image-display app, "Shomi" (originally DePICT) which tried to display anything as fast as possible.

In modern times such an app would be just a bunch of API or library calls, but in the early days I had to write all the image format readers myself.

At the time TIFF was the worst, so complicated, so many options, and you even had to write your own LZW codec that matched theirs.

Next worse was BMP. It's upside-down and you get random zeroes where you expect sensible values.

I managed with a minimalist Photoshop parser (the 8BIM format then) that didn't support everything but coped with the real world files my designer friends tried. It's got more complicated since then.
Your concern is not needed.
Most likely margin calls.
They did not block selling, they blocked opening new positions. You can buy if doing so closes a short position.
Fair enough. If it was all margin calls from accounts bellow the limit that's acceptable but if they liquidated everything on margin that would still be pretty questionable.
That’s the main goal. But what’s the plan afterwards? I see posts with people holding a non trivial amount of stock. Losing $100 to own hedgefunds is different than risking $10k+.
Procreate is 10$ for a one-time purchase.

PS is 13$/mo. Actually, if you got just PS it would be 30$/mo.

And even then I've seen people complain that procreate is too expensive.

I don't really have a point other than design tools and their pricing is a pet issue of mine and I like bringing up how insane it is at any given chance.
On the flip side. I find that when people don't see me, they treat me better. I sound white and have a white name, but I'm brown and this seems to cause issues.